After 12 hours of painstakingly searching, mile after mile, all Inner Mongolia using Apple maps I've finally found the location of the alleguedy Chinese balloon launch facility mentioned recently in a WSJ article. It is located in the Siziwang Banner, 138 km N of Hohhot.

4:17 PM ∙ Feb 11, 2023

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lol

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BREAKING THE MANNERHEIM LINE: SOVIET STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL ADAPTATION IN THE FINNISH-SOVIET WINTER WAR

Great article.

https://warontherocks.com/2023/02/breaking-the-mannerheim-line-soviet-strategic-and-tactical-adaptation-in-the-finnish-soviet-winter-war/

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(my claim in Too Much Crypto that 8 rounds are fine remains unshattered)

5:28 AM ∙ Feb 12, 2023

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A comprehensive approach to countering unmanned aircraft systems

https://www.japcc.org/books/a-comprehensive-approach-to-countering-unmanned-aircraft-systems/

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Let's write a setjmp

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/02/12/

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Portmaster.

An application firewall for Windows and Linux

Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer's network activity.

https://github.com/safing/portmaster

The cool feature is their paid VPN which works per app. I think it’s pretty cool.

https://safing.io/blog/2020/01/22/how-the-spn-compares-to-tor/

https://safing.io

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This reminds me of the Soviet joke.

Khrushchev visits a collective pig farm with a press team for a photo op. The newspaper editors are stumped on how to caption the photo of Khrushchev surrounded by pigs. Finally, one of them has an idea: “third from left, Comrade Khrushchev”